Raise Your Hands If They Are Clean

DESCRIPTION: "Raise your hands if they are clean, By your teacher to be seen; Raise them higher, turn them slow. They're almost white as snow."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1936 (Stout-FolkloreFromIowa); said to have been learned in 1895
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Stout-FolkloreFromIowa 103, pp. 127-133, "Early Iowa School Songs" (11 texts, of which "F" is this song)
Roud #21643
File: Stou103F

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